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He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said. We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free. and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. 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And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watching tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? This is still the land of the free and home Everybody else and the other side that's listening your to military radio. How about the PB and or and behind the lines here and behind occupied lines by again Liberty Tree Radio. Now, I did mention the date once you guys, it is the again 22nd day of September so you know what's coming and I'm kind of making things get ready for that. But 22nd day of September, that's a strike down the middle of the week and if you've heard it before it's a comforting thought. If you've never heard it before don't panic when you hear one in the chain. The slide jumps to All you have to do is touch that little lever right there. The slide jump, the magazine is in the well. You put it up in there and it kind of stays that way until you push that other button. Again, I could be a little redundant there, but it is Weapons Wednesday. Just secure, just to be a little, you can't call it bravado, you just call it, because when you're prepared you can say things like, there's a lot more where that came from. Okay, on this 22nd day, there's a lot more where that came from. hope that you're living that same thought length. I bought something up this morning with Mark in the second hour of the hour that goes out there on the micro effect in the morning, you know the micro effect dot com. But I want to go back to that because I worked on a bit of it in the overall thought. On a gentleman's education, George Washington wrote in one of his, kind of his own, of civility and decent behavior in company and conversation, personal memo, you guys. And you're going to wonder how this fits into a weapons Wednesday, but run along with me on this one. If you heard it this morning, you're going to hear the whole thing again, and it's like one paragraph, and it's almost like, uh, it's almost like prose, but listen to this, you guys. George Washington said on a gentleman's education, Think before you speak. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. Clean not your teeth with the tablecloth, napkin, or knife. And now, you know, it gets a kind of a chuckle these days, and clean not your teeth. We were talking about sitting at the dinner table with gentlemen here. To do that, you really don't want a type of, you know, congeniality. One would, you know, not use the tablecloth, the napkin, or the knife to clean your teeth while sitting at the dinner table. The other thing I find interesting in here, you guys, you find a lot of this on the battlefield and you know, a lot of guys are sending like $5 or $10 home or asking their father to gochind it before. And he would, gee, those dog flea collars. And you know what, they hang them around their ankles, they hang them around their wrists, they almost sew them into things because the fleas are so bad. So it's not real gentlemanly to kill vermin, fleas, or ticks in the sight of others. I just, I thought it were a minute, but. Let's get onto the beef of it. Because you know, I've said many times on this hour, and you know, I'd like to hear from that Brad's guy again. If you've got his ear tone, call me sometime. But the very first time he was up with me as a regular, you know, co-host, the subjects to my use those were choose your words carefully. Again, throughout the rest of the hour, just ridic. The talking heads and many of the things they said within the 48 or 72 hours. But that think before you speak, choose your words carefully. Think before you speak. The next line after that, remember it you guys, undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. Link together to a great, you know, don't make any promises you can't deliver. You've heard that before, and that's kind of cliche-ic. You know, it is a cliche. You know, is your mouth bigger than, you know, blah, blah, blah, and on and on. Don't make promises you can't keep, you know. But think about this one. Undertake not what you cannot perform. Undertake not what you cannot perform. over here. And you know when that magician perfs front of you, it's already the standard. Watch my right hand. We know basically how most of it works. Even in the blink of an eye, he hopes to get something done while you're looking over there at the picked up or whatever. Okay, I'm working on that word right now. That's performance. But you know what, how did he get there? And we don't even have to talk about it. Let's talk about a skilled actor. How did he get there? He polished his skills. over time. And I tried to exhibit that the other day when Mark mentioned a particular band. And I mentioned the three or four bands that the couple of people that were the core of that one band came up through. And they kind of started and they got better over time. But think about this. Undertake not what you cannot perform. And in this instance, that performance comes through practice. And you know, we've talked about this over and over. And practice is, you know, I could say this over and over. And we've talked about not to be redundant. But practice is doing things over and over. in the day, you can tell the people who really don't take things seriously because you know about the third time you've tried to lay your hand moves, a body away you're pushing, whatever, contradictions aren't it? But think about how that works. But they just choose not to pay attention or after showing them to them 40 times they still haven't picked it up and they just go, oh I'll get this one next, I'll have this down for you next. Not even to gain that performance. The way to think about that guy is he'll never make special forces. No matter how hard he wants to, and a tube like that will go on the paper. A sergeant and his lieutenant will go on the paper. He'll never make special forces. Undertake not what you cannot perform. We've talked about that in so many different varied forms. Like, and again, on Weapons Wednesday, you know, take apart your gun, apart and you take apart your gun. And it's a lot easier to do if you've got an exploded view. manual, that's even better in many ways if you've never taken that gun apart before and you don't have somebody around that, well, it's not a good idea to take that gun apart, at least you've, you know, a good idea how guns work and you've taken others of the similar, you know, design like a slide gun, shotgun, or a reason. If you've ever watched and then had somebody coach you, it's not too hard to take a gun apart together. But undertake not what you cannot perform. We've talked about that as far as shooting at a thousand yards. If you want to learn to shoot at a thousand yards, learn to shoot at 22 at 100. And not just on a calm day. That's the thing, because you know, if you make your training easy, and here's another branch on this, undertake not what you cannot perform, trees. If you train in the easy times, again, man, I can walk right out here, I look right here, right now, you guys, and the leaves on the top of the trees. This is the time of day it should be later in the day because it is like, I at comb almost out there, this perf shooting, 100 yards, 22,000 yards with a 50, even farther. But again, I would be cheating myself to say that, yeah, whenever it's calm like this, I go out and shoot. And it's real good practice, but you know what? That's part of repetition. You're practicing that. You're practicing because one day you're going to have to perform. Be it in the animated content on his life. But again, back to that. Undertake not what you cannot perform. You know, I'm kind of dwelling on this and I'm going to hammer it for a little while because I was told I didn't invoke this name before. I trained under that guy, left Korea, the highest ranking Taekwondo instructor. They wanted him to come back under him and he used to tell him three units, 24, 26 or so. 30 black belts wide, 2 and 3 deep and then the lesser ranks behind that on a Sunday class year if you've never done it before trying to hinder you every way they can. Don't try to do something you haven't trained in. And he would look up at ranks because you know many people train under them unto today. In the crowd, now think about this, there's a lot to be learned here. As he looked farther back, he wasn't talking so much to the guys who were in the front, the guys who got 9,000 hours of their life in training to get them that you know fifth degree black belt or whatever just been training three days a week for 14 or 22 years or whatever he wasn't so much talking to them because they knew what he was talking about but he was talking to the guys see sometimes in class and sometimes in life you might be sitting or you might be observing something that you were trying to learn exact you're trying to figure out what just happened what did I just see what just happened. And as you look at it and you think you got it, you gotta work that potential move technique on a hand-to-hand or the hip's the part where the trigger's easy and everything works out for them. But when you try to get it or when you try to duplicate that performance, you're not gonna get there. Now you know what, you guys, and you know that particular from that guy George Washington, undertake not what you cannot perform. The front of the hour, you know where I'm going with this and I've given the illustration of it. If you want to learn to shoot a 50 at a 1,000 yards, learn to shoot a 20 at a 100. It's basically the scale up in time. If you want to, Mr. Shim, I invoke this again. If you want to be a black belt, hang out with black belts. If you want to be a millionaire, try to hang out with millionaires. If you want to be a good, good carpenter, hang out with people who know what to do, how to cut that, how to lay out, how to choose the right wood. Don't cut on that knot, kid. You know what I mean? With that in mind, it's the big, big drum and we've beat it plenty of times, but it's called training. And I'll point out the difference, and I've tried to point it out in this section, the difference between training and the difference between practice. Because you know what, if I go out here, as mentioned moments or a few minutes back, if I take my 22 out here and I set up that target at the end of that long lane there and I pace, I think it's 68 yards from where I would shoot right here, get out of the window to the end of that one, there might be the coyote or the fox. know the clicks to that and gain that and again get that repetition of shooting at that distance. But if I were to do that today on the calm times on a calm day it becomes repetition simply being 90 degrees or 45 degrees moving over you completely the other way and learning to shoot in that. Calling it a challenge. Honing the blade and studying things that ease you. Now that you're pressing yourself. You're pushing hard hard at practice when you're doing that and moving into unfamiliar territory. You do that and you have someone looking over your shoulder saying, just that way. Your elbow right here. Trying to improve them for you, much like I pointed out, moments are at the front of this hour. As you're trying to move someone and you feel the, if they've, and you give that little tug, your other hand is moving towards to reinforce it. They cannot escape you. You give that little tug again and they, when you feel that pull on there, that little bit of resistance push forward and fold where you're locking their wrist. and locking their elbow and everything. But again, that comes from repetition. That comes from, you know, I could not practice myself to that, you guys. Someone had to train me to do that. I could sit here and wiggle thumbs and try to bend my fingers and try to angle myself and push on my, I can't figure out. I can't practice at that now because someone trained me to do that. I use that as example. That's one of the most basic examples in the difference between, oh, I think we've got a, I heard a beat there. Would we have a caller? Patient listener. I think that's one of the best examples, you guys, when I try to tell you the different training. You know, if you think you know everything is condemning yourself to an error, I know everything hand-to-hand combat, or I know everything about driving or whatever. And Mr. Otto's brought that to attention years ago. You know, he used to teach people, young men, how to build houses, and they were of high school age. It's one thing, and we've addressed my line, you know, I'm going to wade into this. on the other side, no matter what sense, I'm going to walk out on the, which is the main thought. Now how do you get there? You know, it's one thing to talk yourself into it, but it's another thing to walk through it with that ability. And you know, here come those, you know, there's the big, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other side, the other more and more that these things are becoming available. You know, it's just before I really do believe that. But you can go and pay the long dollar here and get... And we've talked about the advantages because many, 95, 99 percent, whatever the number is, the people that go after they've done like a handgun class, now they've been taught how to move, take long enough not to shoot the... You know what I mean? They've taught a number of things there. Many times that 95 to 98 percent of the... on the beach. In particular, I'm going to beat up New York cops today because, you know, 49 shots in the air from three different 16 of them. Zippa, who was reaching for his wallet like that. You can well imagine that they must laugh and keep going and spit on the train because they know again, I got to point that out. And you know, you can train, you can train your, this is what you're doing with elbow this way or move your hand fall. See how the weight cradles better. All the little things that you do to polish. like where your hand wants to be or which way it should be moving when a certain thing happens instead of recognizing it a minute, a moment, or an instant. The more things become natural and this comes through training and practice. We'll stick the blender in those two again. This comes from training and practice. Now, I started to talk about this a couple minutes ago and got off on a different example and I'm real good for that. I'm trying to weave this all together here for you, so bear with me you guys. But you know what? You go out or let's say it like this, you know, you were, you were, whatever, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, it might have even been the Coast Guard, and you did your, your hitch and you're out. Now the things that they taught you, you run. Let's say you run and you might have gone, you, you continue to the things that we're taught. But now you don't have someone overlooking you. Again, I'm talking about training and practice because when you are practicing when there is no one looking over your shoulder It would be in good practice to practice as perfect you can Because that's how you were shown how to do it and you know what it's really it's I have to say it and I've seen it many many times and a lot of people who know what I'm talking about have seen it over and over and it's kind of disappointing to get somebody to take an hour or three hours on a Saturday and get someone to the technique 19 out of 20 times, 25 times, look at the percentage there, 19 out of 20 or 24 out of 25 times, they perform it correctly with three hours and sessions sprinkled in with other thoughts and techniques. And then next week you see them again and it's down to 20, they've got it correct. You know why? I'm going to tell you why right now because well a lot of us think that we practice perfectly but we don't. But we don't. We go off and we start to do things the way we kind of thought they should be done before and we move away from that times not so gentle instruction. Sometimes you can leave here or you know Wednesday on your ****** you might be bleeding but again sometimes the instruction is not so gentle. But when you leave you know if you go away and you continue practicing your feet aren't in the right place and you're not looking down every now and then because you know we talk about not looking at your feet during combat. Well you want to keep your eye on your opponent. Just every once in a while if you're practicing it doesn't hurt to look at your feet and make certain they're in the right place. You don't develop while you're not in a training situation. So again when you're practicing strive to practice. Remember all the little nuances that your instructor, your teacher, tried to ingrain in you, tried to build into you in the time you spent with him. Because, you know, not a whole lot of people can just go out and invent comes of fighting or completely new ways of using a gun or a different way of even flying an F-22. You know, that's, I'll tell you this, you guys, that's a basic thought line kind of trained, putting it into a different way. Bruce Lee, you know, that, that You know, an ancient martial arts guy there, he said, go another set of arms or another set of legs or even just one arm more on one other side. We're going to fight basically the amount of tools and there's only so much you can do with it. Now you can be inventive and you can strain this technique to that technique in a way that, wow, no one's ever seen anybody do that and men do that. As an example, you know, sometimes in the Olympics you see someone and they do a, the person may say, seen those linked together before. So you might find combinations and through different combinations that you have learned in training and perfected in practice and gone back to and gained that accolade be it, you know, we're going to make you a corporal, whatever, you know, gone. Well, the practice and the training are what are going to allow you to, here comes that word again, when needed. This training build good performance, you guys. It's not, there's no other way to it. So that you might undertake. And we might have another caller. Who's on the line? Uh oh. Well I'm here. I've just been waiting because I knew you were on a track. One of the things that I would add to what you were talking about there Don is remember guys this works both with hand to hand combat but also with any of the other armed martial arts no matter what they are to include firearms operation. One of the things that you need to do is every once in a while, especially if you're, once you've found the niche, this is true of close in fighting with personal weapons or with firearms of either type, handgun or with shoulder arms. In each case you have a certain beginning posture or position that affords you the best ability to respond. not react, respond. Because the most important thing is with training, you've actually perfected the techniques so that you don't have to react unless you've been caught unawares. Then when you're caught unawares, there's where you have to move as quickly as you can, which is reaction, but still disciplined to response, you know, with a certain series of attacks or assaults in different ways. Hand-to-hand especially is most difficult. If somebody can get a blind blow in on you, you know, like they catch you from behind or they catch you from the side. What you have to do is control your mind and body. Your mind may want to fade on you. Somebody gets you from behind, they use what is called a sap blow of some kind. In other words, they are going to pick a spot that is a pressure point that is going to ring your chimes. So most important is if you suspect even. It's important to remember or to understand that there are ways that you can deflect a blow or absorb the energy to a degree and pull it with you. Example is, you know, we always talk about ducking. Amazingly enough, that works quite well with most of what you're doing, most of what you run into. If it changes the location of the blow, while it's still going to be painful and it may cause some form of disorientation, you can still override that. but it means that you have to have complete, you have to have focus, you have to have focus of self when this happens. With personal fighting weapons such as knives, machetes, tomahawks, hatchets, whatever, there is a best starting station or a best starting position. Now, many people will give you the basics, but we will have to remind everyone that in each case, Don's Arms are different from Mark's Arms. Don has injuries or has physical capabilities that are different from Mark's injuries or physical capabilities. So we have to adjust all of our ideas of how we engage, you know, dependent upon those issues. Now another thing to time when we get into firearms is what I call weapon set. And weapons set has to do with body set. Our whole body is part of that weapon system. You become the platform. That's right. So when you're using that weapon, there's a point at which when you draw the weapon, your first best stance, if it's not a, again, a response shoot of some kind, in other words, something's bearing down on you, it's still within what you consider to be handgun-defendable distance. And even if it is closer, you probably are still going to go with a handgun because if you're at a disadvantage, pop, pop, boom, boom is probably going to be pretty much the equalizer when you're caught unawares. So in that situation, if you're switching to the handgun or moving to deploy a handgun, there is a specific frame of mind and also way that your body will set. And this is difficult to do on the radio, but the best way to describe it is literally you're going to let your body lay on itself. People have a hard time with this. We are too busy trying to look pretty for people, or we're too busy posturing, and that term is correct. Oh, look, he's posturing. What do you mean by that? Another word for that is... Yeah. Now, posing isn't going to get the job done if it's not correct for your body. And that's a big problem we have to deal with. In other words, you have to set. Literally, this is something where you start where you actually have to relax yourself for a minute. You're not going to do this once you're actually in the groove. You know, once you're developing your skill. You actually do it so quickly you won't even think about it. But basically what you need to do is you need to loosen up. Find the center, shoulder feet, shoulder width apart, angle them accordingly, and what you want to do is feel your knees, your ankles, your hips, everything is resting on itself. Now once I've done that, then I'm going to bring my weapon up, depending on what it is, in this case I'm going to use the handgun as an example. I'm going to first grip the handgun appropriately. Once I have control over the handgun, which means if I'm going to use a two-handed combat stance, for instance, I'm going to take my right hand, I'm going to be right handed, Although I can shoot left handed the exact same way and everything applies. First of all you're going to take the handgun and you're going to rest it without pulling it. You're going to have a pull it out of the holster. Have it just sitting there. Pick the weapon up. Set it into the hand so that they stir up the yoke of that weapon, the back of the weapon. if it's a semi-automatic pistol, is resting in the crux of your hand between the thumb and the index finger. The best way to do this, and people see me do this all the time and they have a hard time understanding, well they do and they don't, they're like marbling that you're using this as a prompt, but basically take your hand and make an L, your left hand. You can do this without a gun. Then take your other hand and bring your index, basically your index finger and your thumb right into the other. grip your thumb, grip your left thumb like the grip of a pistol. There's the grip that you want. There's how you want it. That's snug. Now, once you've got that control and you wrap your fingers around the grip, let the thumb rest to the side of the weapon. Do not grip with your thumb. Now that sounds weird, you can use the base of your thumb for energy, but we don't want you to take the tip of your thumb and try to stretch it and wrap around. Now this is a reverse of why we have what. Remember we have that thumb for a reason. You know how we always explain that? It's like one of the things that gives us an advantage in nature. The ability to build a gun. Yeah. But in this case it creates a posing energy we don't necessarily want. Now then I'm going to bring my other hand. and I'm going to wrap and cup the base of the weapon and take my three, my little finger is going to wrap around the base to a degree, but hold the base of the weapon. I actually hold the fingers. My little finger is going to be overlapped by my little finger and then I'm going to take my other three fingers and wrap them around and my other thumb is not going to engage the weapon. It can rest on the index finger or whatever. But now what I have is a platform. Now I bring my hands up and I'm going to rest my body. My body is not stretching. A lot of people like to get lean into it. Now to a degree that might be a good idea depending upon how big a hand cannon you have. So you're going to adjust that. But right now we're looking for accuracy and we're going to find the comfort zone. So what you're going to do is put one foot approximately half a pace forward. Then about the shoulder width apart you're going to be still shoulder width apart facing away from the target. Now you're going to turn a little bit. But I want you to bring your hands up forward naturally. And I want you to close your eyes. What? No, I want you to close your eyes. No, I want you to take that weapon. It's now sitting to the front of you. And I want you to move your arm to the right without moving your whole body. I want you to turn until it feels uncomfortable to turn. In other words, you start to feel tension. Then I want you to turn your whole body, your whole upper body to the left with that combat pose. until it feels uncomfortable. Where you start to feel stress in muscles like the arm muscle and the back muscle. Stop. Now there are your two extremes with regard to control. When you start to reach either point left or right, you are overreaching and you are going to see a difference in performance. Now we're going to find the center. My muscles are all relaxed. I've got my body sitting resting one part of my skeletal structure on top of the other because I know what I want to do. Now I'm going to close my eyes. I'm going to face the target, but I'm going to bring my weapon up into the middle of my comfort zone. And now I'm going to open my eyes. How far off target am I? Ah, now, Mark's not going to tell you to adjust your arms. See, Mark's going to teach you now by adjusting your platform. Keep your hands forward with your eyes open and now shift your body, you know, your lower, your leg, where your feet are configured, preferably just your left foot. Adjust all of your lower settings the same as before and bring your arms in the comfort zone to that target area. When you use the weapon from this point forward, you're going to find that you're not going to see stress in either direction. What's going to be demonstrated in this is when you fire, because you're going to print on the target within a very narrow range of variable. In other words, you're not going to go extreme left. You can tell, I can tell, but your muscle tension activity by how you're going to print on that target. If I see a bunch of other upper right activity, then obviously we see tension in the old gamble both the uh... muscles typically compression on the right side extension on the on the left side we can adjust that and they were brought to work but i think uh... and the local uh... through the door or we'll get what you go well they will appreciate again thank you don't thank you for god bless you and you'll be back later today to worry that girl i think one thing you'd have to keep very good thank you sir And again, now what I've done is simple, it's a simple motion people, but what happens is this. Now that I can see what stance I need to take, now I look at my position. Like Don said earlier, you actually glanced down and look. In your development phase, you're going to determine your best stance, your maximized stance for accuracy. This is the technique for pistol, it's also the same technique for rifle. Now, adjusting for the type of weapon that you have, again, we were talking about leaning into the weapon, you might mildly lean into the weapon to allow for your body weight to compensate for recoil. Remember, this is mass forward, that's what you're doing. You're actually projecting mass forward, and this is going to help to compensate by changing the formula with regard to energy exerted against the weapon once you properly control it. Now, let me give you a few hints here on your handgun. When you pull the trigger with a stance like this, your first round is going to be what we call the flyer. It's not going to be extreme. If you've done everything right, you breathe, you get sight alignment, you're focusing on the target, you're squeezing, not pulling. What's going to happen is that first round is going to be mildly up and typically to the right. Now if you're a left-handed shooter, it'll be mildly up and to a degree, though not as extreme as it would be with a right-hand shooter, but it will be up and to the left. but it will be about 11 o'clock instead of about probably 2 or 3 o'clock for the right handed shooter. Why? Well, even if you are a left handed shooter, your gun wasn't switched over to left handed ejection. Now you can do that with some guns, but here's the point. You have a specific amount of energy that is exerted because of extraction and the ejection process. Because of that, that's why the weapon typically will move up and to the right with a right handed shooter. If you've reconfigured for left-hand shooting, you're going to find that your recoil will still be affected by the extraction process. And so you're not going to see as extreme a variable in that first round flier. Now, why does this first round flier take place? Here's why. You don't feel your hand right there where I told you to grip that weapon. Oh, that's right. You got some soft, chewy stuff there called muskle. Now, with muskle, One of the things that happens when you grip a weapon initially is none of your, although your muscles are tensed and your muscles are exerting energy, those muscles are still not compressed. And what happens with the first round in the battery of a magazine of fire like this, a five, seven, eight, whatever round you're using, is that the first round compresses that tissue and puts the weapon into what we call a positive seat, maximum position. That point, from that point, your best round will probably be, doesn't mean your first round isn't going to be a good hit. But we're talking about being able to place groups, five rounds, forgive me, five rounds in four seconds with a 45 into an area 25 yards the size of a quarter. That should be your goal. Now, does that mean you're going to get that every time? Yep. Yep. Yep. If you focus, Now does that mean you're going to get that in a perfect situation, say, in a world situation? Hey, remember what he said in Braveheart, and forgive me, not Braveheart, in the Patriot? You know, aim small, miss small? Well, the same is true with regard to compression of target, you know, target acquisition. You bring it in and you want to keep that group right there, where it belongs. Buck, buck, buck, buck. All of the actions I've described take 10 minutes, 20 minutes. All take place in a matter of moments or nanomoments once you microsecond when you are actually performing the task once you're experienced. And it should be that quick. You can increase speed. Remember, with practice comes increase in performance. Practice, practice, practice. Practice, practice, practice. Pop, pop, pop. Pop, pop, pop. Now, I don't want you spraying and spraying and dumping eight rounds into a target that only needed three. That's another consideration. Now, here's the interesting thing. If you are, for instance, match shooters know this, if you're firing Competition 45, you're also going to fire 20, you know, competing in the 22 range, and sometimes other calibers, because there are other calibers that are authorized depending upon the match. And this applies also to combat shooting. Once you have that skill acquired, what do you think your performance range is like with the 22? The Felt Recoil with a 40 caliber, a 45, and a 9 millimeter are very, very different from a 22 semi-automatic pistol or a 22 caliber revolver. Air-go people, if you tighten that group up with a 9 or a 45 or a 40 caliber, consider when you screw that pistol into the target automatically, yep, there you go. A pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket, pocket. Five rounds into a quarter should be very realistic first time every time once that weapon is zeroed to your person Then it is an extension of your mind in your hand So even if it's a 22 if I can keep it into an area the size of somebody's eyeball somebody's nose Let's put it this way the nasal channel if I can put three rounds of 22 into the nasal cavity area Trust me that person has got a headache I may not, you know, again, they may not necessarily terminate them right away, but I'll guarantee that the term seeing red definitely applies. You get the drift? So just because it is a lesser firearm doesn't mean that it can't be brought up to whatever potential is needed on your part. It is a matter of the shooter, not a matter of the firearm. And that's something that I don't care what anybody comes up with. A .32 automatic, yes I know the .25 is a pop gun, but you know what? It barks like a dog and within its combat range it will perforate you and do damage. Every firearm has a potential for defense capability. You understand its limits and you also understand its performance range. And you pull every bit of performance out of that with the shooter. It's not the gun that makes the shooter. It's the shooter that brings the weapon to its full potential. That's the balance, the formula. Ignore anybody else who tries to argue otherwise. Let me give you an example. We've talked about this before. In fact, let's go back real quick. I don't want to get a minute here. The world at war in 1775. Bunker Hill. Old gentleman, 70 years old, doesn't have a firearm, wants to go fight. Walking towards Breed's Hill, heading towards the Boston siege. Every so often he stops or it looks like there's somebody who might have some resources and he begs for a gun or anything they've got. Somebody finally gives him a rifle, but he doesn't have any flint and the thing needs to be cleaned. It's a, and remember with black powder, if not cleaned properly, guaranteed to be rusting. Well anyway, he cleans, he's cleaning the weapon, he's scrubbing out it as he moves, and he's asking and begging as he goes. He gets three used flints. Later on he gets enough for three four shots now remember the flints are good until you know such times are you know fractured beyond use So he's pairing and cleaning as he as he's walking along and he knows what he's doing He's 70 years old he's done this for a long time. He was in the French and Indian wars gets three ball three bullets for the gun Finds and begs enough powder to actually fill a small powder horn for that for those three rounds shows up We know where's the fight? goes out walks through the cannonade that's going up and it's passing along the uh... the uh... peninsula there towards bunker hill pixel location loads first round fires loads of second round fires loads of third round and fires contributes to the battle turns around walks back to the rear because he doesn't have a band-aid he's seventy years old and he's going to look for more powder shot walks back to the cannonade you know through the gunfire there but also so fearful of unscathed returns back to the line starts begging for more powder and bullets from people back to the rear way away from where the fighting is because everybody else has scavenged everything up nobody wants to let their stuff go because they know they're gonna need their ammo they're gonna need their powder now I go to a gun show you look around you'll find there's some tired looking on the outside weapons that are kind of unique but let's say that I go there with 50 or 60 or hundred dollars you'd be amazed at what you can run into on the tables French Moss rifle fifteen dollars now boy boy she looks tired but i think what mechanically on the inside wall outside man i don't know who abused this thing but the but stock for instance as a nail in the end of it and it doesn't even have a right recoil pad of any kind of them a but played metal should normally be metal doesn't have anything about a male sticking out of that i was kind of laughter my father's like that look into the shoulder what's it fired kinda like hooked into the meat you can drop the thing maybe that's it So anyway, walk along a little farther, there's a rubber recoil pad, oh a nice one, unissued, unused, commercial, no name brand, about 3 inches thick, for a dollar in a grab box. Okay, got a $15 rifle. Now I look at it real quick and it doesn't have a front sling ring, so I go through another grab box and I'm strutting around in there, and lo and behold, there's a, well an odd front sling ring for I don't know what. But you know what, it looks like it's got a threaded piece of stock on the other side that has its own screw. And the ring hanger that's on the rifle, wow, look at that, it fits. Total cost for that front sling ring. Well, I think I paid 25 cents. And I bought three or four other items that were, you know, totaled with a dollar for everything that I got. I paid a dollar, 25 cents for the screw, which was already on the thing, by the way. And 25 cents for the sling ring, and I got a few other goodies that I wanted, including a cleaning kit that wasn't for that MOS, you know, 49 rifle. But guess what? It worked just fine. Anyway, I walked down a little farther. Now I gotta start looking around here. well hold on i got five point five french amo that's right it's seven point five french and lo and behold i find some military ball uh... let's see french nineteen fifty nine manufactured for well it's pricey twenty one pence around now this is a few years ago guys so i'd buy two boxes of ammo Oh, I also find a stripper clip. Two or three of another junk box cost about 60 cents a piece. You want a little more than 50 cents an item. So I grab that out of the other grab box. Now, do I have a big blaster rifle here? No, I don't. But now I'm going to do something a little different. I go down to the guy that has lots and lots of optics, but he's an old parts dealer that's been around for a long time. Say hi Frank, how you doing? Oh, just fine. Frank, I need an old B-squared mount for a Moss Rifle. You got one of those non-tapping Moss, you know. He goes, well, let me look. And out of his odd box wired together is the front and rear fixture and the whole rest of the assembly. I need a little plastic bag hooked up with the screws for a B-squared mount for a Moss Rifle. yeah i don't have to do anything to it locks right into the weapon look at that now i've been saying why you got a conquer scope later well tell you what i got an old bush now here she's not pretty not adjustable nine power nothing fancy that's good how much you want for that all give me a price come on well that blueing is really shot out of the how about you give me like you know seven dollars all right So I take the scope, and I got the scope mount there. Oh, by the way, can you get me a set of rings? Well, I got some clunker. Give me something that'll fit on this B-squared mount. It takes a picatinny rail system. There you go. So another dollar, I got a set of old one-inch rings that go along that one-inch scope, that bush now. I'm set to go to town. Now, there's one more place I go before I end my shopping tour. I already got a couple boxes of ammo. Actually, I got three by the time I've done it. I found another box of oddball stuff. that was in pieces in another grab box for twenty five cents around for the annual for the rifle shells not pretty but serviceable no words they had no like they had a little tarnish on them not green but they were you know they were tired they were you know you've just sit around somewhere and you know collecting dust and rust so they're serviceable enough no dings no dense no green and it's the same ammunition uh... from about the same years of stuff i bought twenty rounds to a box So I got all my goodies together and I go back to the bench and I sit down for a minute and I get my stuff organized. And the first thing I do is I clean that weapon thoroughly. Wow. Now I'm letting everything soak and I go back to the dollar store. Mark, go to the dollar store for it. Well, we got a cool dollar store over here. We got OD green paint, we got earth brown paint, we got black, flat black, oh my goodness. We got crinkle paint if you want it, but I'm not going to use crinkle paint. I got three or four colors here that will work just fine, and they're actually military colors. I want to come from something I don't know where. Maybe for long furniture, who knows. But anyway, take that all home. Now when I'm done, I got myself a complete package in a light, simple battle rifle. Nothing fancy. I'm gonna have to buy more ammunition. But if I put this all together and clean this all up, I got basically the starter rifle or a good kit rifle to stick away somewhere. As soon as I fill up a .30 caliber cam with more of that .75 ammo with the next paycheck, lo and behold, there's a nice rifle to hand out to somebody who's a light marksman. There's somebody who, if he understands how to use that turn-bolt weapon and that gun platform concept we just described. Every bullet's gonna count. Did he spend a whole lot? No, I didn't. Did I get that rifle for $15? Yes, I did. Nobody liked the looks of it, and it was in 7.5 French. It was in a bugger cartridge, which still is not very common, but it's out there. There's stuff out there from Preview Partisan now. So what you're looking at is a total, grand total, about $80 to $100 spent, depending on how much ammo I buy. And you've actually got a little sniper rifle by the time you're done. Is that a French rifle attack driver? Yeah, as a matter of fact, they're quite accurate. The only thing is they've got crude French military sights on them. But guess what? I took the B-squared scope out, screw that into place, take that scope, put it on there, try to center as best I can, sit down at 25 yards of the piece of paper, and I start printing. And I start with one round, not three rounds. Normally I'd go three, but this is not cheap ammo. I'm going to see exactly where I'm printing. I'm going to sandbag the gun. I'm going to put it to my shoulder. Now this is after I install that new butt plate, because that nail would be very embarrassing. And with a few pennies, you know, again, applied, a little bit of grease, elbow, model grease, you know, elbow work, that weapon turned out to be a fine placement gun. And it's just as dangerous as that Savage, that Model 70 or that Model 700. Now, if I want to upgrade it, guess what? Spend more money on the scope. spend more money on the animal uh... pick your pick but don't change anything else in the weapon it's a fifteen dollar rifle but i'll get that fifteen dollar rifle the print place easily out to three hundred yards and remember seven five french equal to three oh eight nato yeah yeah i guess that's actually pretty good by and there's a bunch of other weapons laid around like that much attention this member with the top of the hour so we're gonna go to our top of the hour break and all the other music in a second there and well hopefully we just gave you some ideas. Watch for little things laying around. Next I'm going to remind you of another special project I proposed the other day. There are a lot of the stuff out there guys in the gun shows and stuff that has no paperwork, nobody's going to bother you over and when the time comes more than enough to keep you alive. This is the intel report. First hour is done. Weapons Wednesday. God bless the Republic. 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